It turned out that Clonezilla was available on the Arch Linux installation
medium. It detected the NTFS file systems and took a backup of the system
drive to an external hard drive that I had with an XFS file system on it.
For those who are not on the Orca mailing list where this was announced, the
latest (slightly unofficial) Talking Arch can be found at
http://talkingarch.info/
It loads Speakup for speech, and BRLTTY for braille, then leaves you at a
root shell prompt.
I needed help to turn off Secure Boot in the firmware settings of the
machine, but that was the only accessibility issue so far.
My next steps will be to try to shrink the main Windows partition so that I
can install Linux on the free space.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jason White via Blind-sysadmins
Hi,
For backing up a complete drive i use Clonezilla. Works well and is accessible.
Clonezilla Live boots off a usb stick or cd. Its basically debian with an automatically starting clonezilla.
https://clonezilla.org/downloads/download.php?branch=testing
Greetings, Simon -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Jason White via Blind-sysadmins
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 24. Jänner 2019 15:31 An: blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org Cc: Jason White Betreff: [Blind-sysadmins] Some backup and UEFI questions I'm performing background research, and asking questions on mailing lists, in preparation for an attempt to install Linux alongside the existing Windows environment on my Lenovo P51 laptop.
What are the most accessible options for creating a backup of the existing drive and its Windows partitions, before I make changes?
I've installed several distributions of Linux before, but on BIOS-based systems, and without another operating system installed. UEFI and Secure Boot complicate the situation. I've asked on a Linux User's Group list as well, but any suggestions that subscribers here can offer (or good links taht I might any advice that subscribers here can offer, or links to good references taht I may not ahve found, would be welcome.
The laptop also has Intel Management Engine firmware, but it hasn't been configured. It may enable the UEFI menus to be made accessible - but I haven't looked into the details yet. _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list -- blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org To unsubscribe send an email to blind-sysadmins-leave@lists.hodgsonfamily.org _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list -- blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org To unsubscribe send an email to blind-sysadmins-leave@lists.hodgsonfamily.org
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